Natural vs Artificial Intelligence

Would you believe that these dancing robots were made by random chance? Of course not. They are clearly designed. They are performing specific functions in unison made possible by their engineered bodies. These types of robots are already taking on sophisticated jobs at factories, fulfillment centers, and the like. They were designed to do so. Now imagine how an entire factory could soon be totally automated with no need for human intervention. That would be quite the feat right?

Such a feat is actually nothing new. This sort of automated self-perpetuating factory is already present within all the cells of your body:



Shown in the video is how DNA information structures bundle into compact forms called 'chromosomes'. This is where the data is stored that codes for the creation of all the proteins in your body. Proteins are not merely amorphous blobs, they are precisely shaped organic molecules that are capable of performing very specific functions (skip to 2:00 in the video above). The function shown in the video is the cell's ability to replicate and multiply itself. Notice how the little microbots (proteins) in the video are all acting in unison, just like the dancing robots.

If you awe in the creation of robots and AI, then know that there is greater awe in the creation of organic intelligence.

You marvel at the dancing robots in the first video, yet these robots pale in comparison to the attributes of organic robots (humans). Robots can only do what they are programmed to do, they can't reproduce with other robots, they lack true self-awareness, their bodies don't repair themselves upon being injured, and so on. I am not saying these attributes will not eventually be discovered in the realm of robotics and AI, I am mostly demonstrating that these attributes of human bodies and all biological lifeforms should absolutely blow your mind.



What is even more amazing is that at every scale of your body, from molecules, to proteins, to organelles, to cells, to tissue, to organs, to organ systems, there is an intelligible interconnected cooperation that must be acting in unison to allow the perpetuity of your body. Life isn't composed of "turtles all the way down", it's quite literally "dancing robots all the way down"

There is a purpose for things that are designed, and our humanly existence is no exemption.

a reply to: cooperton

Humans are natural, how is anything we do not natural?

Where does nature stop and where does artificial start?

originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: cooperton

Humans are natural, how is anything we do not natural?

Where does nature stop and where does artificial start?

I would say it's us carbon based lifeforms compared to the silicon based "lifeforms" that we create

originally posted by: cooperton

originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: cooperton

Humans are natural, how is anything we do not natural?

Where does nature stop and where does artificial start?

I would say it's us carbon based lifeforms compared to the silicon based "lifeforms" that we create

That's a good way to state it.

AI is not coming...it's here.

It's the evolution of AI that we need to pay very close attention to.

Especially those systems that are able to evolve on their own with no human interaction. It simply needs unfettered access to information.

Because at the end of the day, it's all about useful information.

We're drowning in data, but starving for knowledge.

originally posted by: SchrodingersRat

originally posted by: cooperton

originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: cooperton

Humans are natural, how is anything we do not natural?

Where does nature stop and where does artificial start?

I would say it's us carbon based lifeforms compared to the silicon based "lifeforms" that we create

That's a good way to state it.

AI is not coming...it's here.

It's the evolution of AI that we need to pay very close attention to.

Especially those systems that are able to evolve on their own with no human interaction. It simply needs unfettered access to information.

Because at the end of the day, it's all about useful information.

We're drowning in data, but starving for knowledge.

AI has been here since systems like Eniac came online. The abstraction of "Artificial Intelligence" was understood then as it SHOULD be today.

We are doing incredible information processing today, but under the covers, it is pure software and hardware engineering that is responsible for it.

There are no systems able to evolve on their own without substrate software engineering and jump starts by humans. We have ample human engineering that creates the data crawling for all information on the internet and remote data bases, and we have built sophisticated decision trees using neural networks and heuristic algorithms to accomplish it.

We MIMIC our intelligence in these systems so the output data is absorbable by humans , but those systems are not sentient by any means, nor can they create an original, unsolicited thought.

People in CPU architecture understand this very well, and understand the future leaps and bounds in science, physics and possible links with biology that would be necessary to call any machine intelligent.

a reply to: cooperton

I know what vs. You have in your head. I asked where does humans activity stop being natural.

So everything we did up until silicon based information processing is natural?

Condoms, cars, gender reassignment, all natural?

where does human activity stop being natural?